State Department: Rocket Attack In Golan Heights Was 'An Attack By Hezbollah'

3 months ago

State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel was asked about whether the United States believed Hezbollah was responsible for the recent rocket attack in the Golan Heights.

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00:00I just want to go back to your answer to Said about the Golan Heights.

00:05You mentioned that the control – the Israeli control is a security necessity for Israel

00:11as long as Assad and other villains are operating in Syria.

00:17But are you – is this a walk back from the recognition of Trump administration of Golan

00:25Heights as a sovereign territory of Israel?

00:29Our position on our policy has not changed.

00:33So –

00:34So it is a sovereign territory of Israel?

00:36Our policy as it relates to the Golan Heights has not changed.

00:39The Secretary has spoken about this since the beginning of this administration, and

00:43we have consistently talked about it in the same way, and our position has not changed.

00:48Okay.

00:49And my second question is about the Hezbollah incidents.

00:53Hezbollah denying this, and Israel and the United States accused him of it.

01:01Do you have any independent verification that it was Hezbollah, or are you relying on Israeli

01:05information?

01:06So I'm not going to get into the underlying data that supports this assessment, but what

01:16I can say is that this attack was conducted by Hezbollah.

01:21It was their rocket, and it was launched from an area they control, and any assertation

01:25to the contrary would be a denial of reality.

01:28But this is your U.S. assessment, this U.S. assessment.

01:31I'm not going to get into the underlying circumstances of this assessment, but it is

01:37the – it is our assessment that this was an attack by Hezbollah, again, because it

01:43was their rocket and it was launched from a region, an area they control.

State Department: Rocket Attack In Golan Heights Was 'An Attack By Hezbollah'

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